I’m slowly getting around to moving my surveillance crew up to “official” status. My number one criterion: Making us think (Making us think –strephon is making us think!) Right Reason definitely falls into that category.
It’s called “The Welblog for Philosophical Conservatism” and it has a whole host of contributors, listed neatly on the right hand column. These are not all longish pieces, but they all deal with… “thick” topics. All the more fun for me.
The first that I read was [What’s Wrong With Utilitarianism?](http://rightreason.ektopos.com/archives/001344.html), by [Roger Kimball](http://rightreason.ektopos.com/kimball.html), where he describes some of the flaws in utilitarian thinking. Personally, I don’t have much of a problem with utilitarianism, so long as it’s put in its proper place: well beneath the question of “why?” As long as it’s used as a tool to accomplish the “how?” it’s beautiful. Anyway, I was inspired to comment. (Near the bottom) Sigh. Always the foolish love praise.
Another post that bears at least a hat tip is [Steve Burton’s](http://rightreason.ektopos.com/burton.html) link to Ruth R. Wisse’s Aritcle, [Dear Ellen](http://www.commentarymagazine.com/production/files/wisseadvance.html) in [*Commentary* Magazine](http://www.commentarymagazine.com/) on Larry Summers. If you’ll remember, Summers is the Harvard President who suggested publicly that women and men may perform differently in different fields because of an inherent difference in the sexes, and promptly buckled under the ensuing criticism. Wisse says some very good things about the Harvard situation, but she also goes on to say some very impacting things about Feminism and women in careers:
Urging women into difficult careers is all well and good; extending them equal opportunity is a matter of law; but the society that does not counsel early marriage and children is far crueler to women than the “sexist” one it replaced. Whatever social status accrues to Nobel Prize-winning scientists, the society of women will always honor those who marry happily and procreate
As a man marrying a woman who wants to go into a demanding career *and* have at least four children, statements like these bear at least a second glance. I love my fiancé, and I want to achieve all that she is capable of achieving. But I also want her to be *happy*. We’re (obviously) at a place where we feel very greatly the need to make careful and wise decisions. There are other passages I could quote, but Burton has [done so already](http://rightreason.ektopos.com/archives/001352.html), and I want you to follow the link. Then read the actual article. It’s well worth the read.
Other articles include a medical commentary on [Medical Name Magic]( http://rightreason.ektopos.com/archives/001356.html), Discussion on [whether altruism exists](http://rightreason.ektopos.com/archives/001363.html), and of course, posts on [John Paul II](http://rightreason.ektopos.com/archives/001357.html) and [Terri Schiavo](http://rightreason.ektopos.com/archives/001349.html).
Alltogether an excellent blog. It’s going under Religion until such time as we re-arrange our categories again.
neumatikos 
Thanks for the nice write-up!
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